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$ix Apart gets ca$h

Matt Marshall at Silicon Beat says that Six Apart, the blogging platform developer behind Typepad and Moveable Type, has just landed $12m in series C financing. Intel is rumored to be in on the deal, which consisted of just three firms. The news broke on IDD Magazine which has more here. Six Apart has needed to invest in its infrastructure to keep up with bandwidth demands as it scales, so hopefully this will ease that process going forward. My bet would be that some of the money will go towards further international expansion too.

Update - Om's on the case too.

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